A General Purpose Forecast Simulator

Donald Gross and Jack L. Ray
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Donald Gross: The Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jack L. Ray: The Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Management Science, 1965, vol. 11, issue 6, B119-B135

Abstract: A simulator is developed which enables a variety of forecasting procedures to be tested on any given time series. The simulator determines the standard deviation of the forecast error for each of the procedures tried, indicates the procedure which is optimal in the sense of lowest standard deviation of forecast error, and presents projections and graphs of actual versus predicted values. The time series under study can be either a real time series read into the simulator or a time series generated by the simulator.

Date: 1965
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